linux-kernel - Re: s390 && user_enable_single_step() (Was: odd utrace testing results on s390x)

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Message-ID: <20100104181412.GA21146@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:14:12 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc:	caiqian@...hat.com, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Jan Kratochvil <jkratoch@...hat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	utrace-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: s390 && user_enable_single_step() (Was: odd utrace testing
	results on s390x)

On 01/04, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:52:25 +0100
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > We have some strange problems with utrace on s390, and so far this _looks_
> > like a s390 problem.
> >
> > Looks like, on any CPU user_enable_single_step() does not "work" until at
> > least one thread with per_info.single_step = 1 does the context switch.
>
> The PER control registers only get reloaded on task switch. Can you test
> if this patch fixes your problem?
>
> --
> Subject: [PATCH] fix loading of PER control registers for utrace.
>
> From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
>
> If the current task enables / disables PER tracing for itself the
> PER control registers need to be loaded in FixPerRegisters.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> --- a/arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c
> @@ -98,6 +98,9 @@ FixPerRegisters(struct task_struct *task
>  		per_info->control_regs.bits.storage_alt_space_ctl = 1;
>  	else
>  		per_info->control_regs.bits.storage_alt_space_ctl = 0;
> +
> +	if (task == current)
> +		__ctl_load(per_info->control_regs.words, 9, 11);
>  }

Yes it does fix the problem! Thanks a lot Martin.


However. Could you please look at 6580807da14c423f0d0a708108e6df6ebc8bc83d ?
I am worried, perhaps this commit is not enough for s390. OK, do_single_step()
tracehook_consider_fatal_signal(), this means the forked thread will not
be killed by SIGTRAP if it is not auto-attached, but still this may be
wrong.

IOW. I think this problem is minor and probably can be ignored, but if
I remove tracehook_consider_fatal_signal() check from do_single_step(),

--- a/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c
@@ -382,8 +382,7 @@ void __kprobes do_single_step(struct pt_
 					SIGTRAP) == NOTIFY_STOP){
 		return;
 	}
-	if (tracehook_consider_fatal_signal(current, SIGTRAP))
-		force_sig(SIGTRAP, current);
+	force_sig(SIGTRAP, current);
 }
 
 static void default_trap_handler(struct pt_regs * regs, long interruption_code)
-------------------------------------------------------------------

then the test-case from 6580807da14c423f0d0a708108e6df6ebc8bc83d
fails. This probably means that copy_process()->user_disable_single_step()
is not enough to clear the "this task wants single-stepping" copied
from parent.

Thanks!

Oleg.

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